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indizombie · 2 years ago
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Artificial intelligence (AI) could replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs, a report by investment bank Goldman Sachs says. It could replace a quarter of work tasks in the US and Europe but may also mean new jobs and a productivity boom. Generative AI, able to create content indistinguishable from human work, is "a major advancement", the report says. The report notes AI's impact will vary across different sectors - 46% of tasks in administrative and 44% in legal professions could be automated but only 6% in construction 4% in maintenance, it says. According to research cited by the report, 60% of workers are in occupations that did not exist in 1940. But other research suggests technological change since the 1980s has displaced workers faster than it has created jobs. And if generative AI is like previous information-technology advances, the report concludes, it could reduce employment in the near term.
Chris Vallance, ‘AI could replace equivalent of 300 million jobs - report’, BBC
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earhartsease · 1 year ago
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yeah, get em - for what it's worth now with so many unnecessary deaths and debilitations
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eretzyisrael · 1 year ago
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By Chris Vallance
X, formerly called Twitter, has removed a post denying the Holocaust after criticism from the Auschwitz Museum. The social media platform had initially said the post did not break its rules.
The offensive post was a reply to one from the museum about a three-year-old Jewish girl murdered in the concentration camp's gas chambers.
The post called her death a "fairy tale" and used anti-Semitic tropes.
X's policies state that Holocaust denial is prohibited.
At least 1.1 million people were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp in German-occupied Poland. Almost one million were Jews. The museum notes more than 200,000 were children and young people.
They were gassed, starved, worked to death and killed in medical experiments.
According to a post on X by the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, it had reported the offensive reply but received a response saying that after viewing the "available information" the platform had decided no rules had been broken.
That initial response to the museum's complaint, according to X, was down to a mistake during the first review - it was escalated and removed in a second review.
"Violent event denial" is banned under X's policies on abusive behaviour. The platform says it prohibits content denying that mass murder took place which "includes, but is not limited to, events like the Holocaust, school shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters".
The X account which made the offensive post on Sunday has 20 followers.
While X says it has removed the post, the account was still accessible as of Monday 17:00 GMT. Its other content includes statements and language many would find offensive.
The company says it is reviewing whether the account should be permanently suspended.
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prose2passion · 1 year ago
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Important stuff from Devi Sridhar on the role of the "scientific advisers" to the mad circus that pretended to govern the UK during Covid. Personally I lost trust in them from the early weeks when they first appeared in public - I was traumatised by Vallance talking about herd immunity on 13.3.2020, see my chronology of the early days here: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2020/04/chronicle-of-disaster-foretold.html To me, as they propped up a government that killed many thousands through negligence, they are also guilty of those deaths. And I wouldn't believe either of them a word they said, ever.
Devi Sridhar by contrast, commenting from outside the govt., has been an excellent guide through this crisis.
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ariadneslament · 4 months ago
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As Hermes once took to his feathers light  When lulled Argus, baffled, swoon'd and slept, So on a Delphic reed my idle spright  So play'd, so charm'd, so conquer'd, so bereft The dragon-world of all its hundred eyes,  And, seeing it asleep, so fled away: Not to pure Ida with its snow-cold skies,  Nor unto Tempe where Jove griev'd a day; But to that second circle of sad hell,  Where 'mid the gust, the whirlwind, and the flaw Of rain and hail-stones, lovers need not tell  Their sorrows. Pale were the sweet lips I saw, Pale were the lips I kiss'd, and fair the form I floated with, about that melancholy storm.
— John Keats, On A Dream
I had a dream last night in which I asked for recommendation letters from two of the greatest and smartest guys I have encountered and worked with: Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty. They were smiling as I asked them to write on my behalf and wrapped up the drafts, complete with signatures, within just 30 minutes. I was so jovial that I put them right away in the flowery-designed binder that looked exactly like the one I have in real life so I could transfer them later into proper documents.
It was an odd dream as we were roaming around in a classroom during the golden hour, and there were some faces I am familiar with.
I woke up, and as the realisation of what was real hit me, I couldn’t help but have some tears welling up in my eyes. I wish it was true.
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mikeo56 · 1 year ago
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Politicians don't understand the fundamentals of science behind infections disease epidemiology, climate change, over population, decline in biodiversity and other topics requiring solid STEM comprehension? We'll who would have guessed? One would think this distressing assertion is the start of some thesis attempting to elucidate the premise that 99% of our politicians are useless lying con men and women with no vision, a cold and poor view of the human race and in possession of cretinous minds able to do little more than connive and grift for position, power and personal gain. Damn!
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cavenewstimes · 1 year ago
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Delay to law on e-scooters criticised
Image source, Getty Images By Chris Vallance BBC News A hold-up to brand-new laws on e-scooters has actually been criticised by companies and advocates who implicate the federal government of missing out on a chance to tighten up security guidelines. E-scooters are commonly offered and seen, however are presently just legal on personal land or from trial hire plans. There was no reference of…
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andronetalks · 1 year ago
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Threads: Instagram owner launches Twitter-like app
BBC News By Chris Vallance & James ClaytonTechnology reporters, BBC NewsJuly 5, 2023 Instagram-owner Meta has launched its Threads app, which experts say could attract Twitter users unhappy with recent changes to the platform. The app is now available to download in over 100 countries including the UK, but not yet in the European Union because of regulatory concerns. Users can create posts of up…
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Interesting.
Would be amazing if they said they had refused to stick to the party line on Cummings.
I think a lot of public faith in the government would be lost if they stepped down.
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thecraggus · 6 years ago
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Doctor Who: Resolution (S11E11) Review
Doctor Who: Resolution (S11E11) ends up testing my resolve. #Review
The dawn of a New Year can be a time for sober, objective deliberation. A contemplation of the year just passed; its triumphs – and its follies – and, most importantly, the chance to reflect, reconsider and refresh both yourself and your work. Not that you would glean this from the current Doctor Who production team’s faltering festive offering.
More than a millennium ago, the people of the world…
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jonathantrapman · 4 years ago
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HANCOCK, WHITTY, FERGUSON AND VALLANCE SERVED NOTICE OF PRIVATE PROSECUTION FOR FRAUD
HANCOCK, WHITTY, FERGUSON AND VALLANCE SERVED NOTICE OF PRIVATE PROSECUTION FOR FRAUD
It has taken a while, yet the tightest private criminal prosecution for what will turn out to be the biggest case of criminal fraud perpetrated has the clock set in motion. On the 21st February 2021 at 21.02.21 these four criminals were put on notice for crimes so heinous, so diabolical that the next little while the whole of the nation will be awoken to the fraud perpetrated on them case after…
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cavenewstimes · 2 years ago
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Wikipedia will not carry out Online Safety Bill age checks
Wikipedia will not carry out Online Safety Bill age checks, It states age confirmation would contravene its dedication to gather very little information from readers …, 2023-04-28 02:55:00, Image source, Getty Images By Chris Vallance & & Tom Gerken Innovation press reporters Wikipedia will not abide by any age checks needed under the Online Safety Bill, its structure states. Rebecca…
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andronetalks · 2 years ago
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AI 'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton warns of dangers as he quits Google
BBC News By Zoe Kleinman & Chris Vallance May 2, 2023 A man widely seen as the godfather of artificial intelligence (AI) has quit his job, warning about the growing dangers from developments in the field. Geoffrey Hinton, 75, announced his resignation from Google in a statement to the New York Times, saying he now regretted his work. He told the BBC some of the dangers of AI chatbots were “quite…
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UK coronavirus cases could rise at a dangerous pace, warns top medical advisor Image Source : PTI UK coronavirus cases could rise exponentially, warns top medical advisor Britain has turned a corner in the coronavirus pandemic in a "bad sense", which means infections will rise at a dangerous pace unless tougher action is taken, the UK's top medical advisor said on Monday.
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dailynewsreporter · 4 years ago
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londontaleshqs · 2 years ago
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𝐸𝑋𝑇𝑅𝐴! 𝐸𝑋𝑇𝑅𝐴! o público da temporada social de londres acabou de aumentar! eleanor alexandra henrietta arundell, hayatim stanton, amélia clementine vallance, eileen blackwood, alessa yarbrough, phoebe desiree benett, milena marie meadowes, melantha bellingham, cecilia thaddeus gilbert, celina cavendish, isobel bloodworth, genevieve mildred carrington, theodore edwin ruddick, alexander morval braddock, christopher beaumont, henry charles alexander arundell, hudson duddington e raj naksh kent davenport confirmaram presença na capital!
facelaims ocupados: daisy edgar-jones, hande erçel, madelyn cline, natalie dormer, maddison jaizani, sofia carson, abigail cowen, madelaine petsch, emily alyn lind, fah yongwaree, bruna marquezine, vitória strada, jacob elordi, evan roderick, tom holland, felix mallard, chris wood, avan jogia.
títulos ocupados: princesa da inglaterra, viscondessa de hereford, marquesa de normanby, herdeira do ducado de kent, herdeira do ducado de devonshire, herdeira do viscondado de suffolk, herdeiro do ducado  de beaufort, herdeiro do ducado de somerset, visconde de manchester, príncipe da inglaterra, duque de york, conde de warwick.
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